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Thirteen teams from across all six Hillcroft Nursing homes went head-to-head at the Alzheimer’s Mighty Quiz to beat dementia.

On Thursday 11th April, all teams met up at the Royal Station Hotel, Carnforth, to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research.

Hillcroft were proud to hand over a cheque of £750 to Alzheimer’s Research.

Simon McDermott, North West Regional Fundraising Officer, said: “We are so grateful to Hillcroft Nursing Homes for supporting Alzheimer’s Research UK.

“Dementia affects a huge proportion of the population – one in three people over 65 in the UK will die with some form of the condition. Fantastic fundraising efforts like this will help us to defeat dementia sooner”.

Alzheimer’s Research powers world class studies focusing on prevention, diagnosis and treatments for dementia. There are 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK and this number is expected to rise to over 1 million by 2025.

The quiz champions of the evening were the Ridiculous 6 from the Lancaster Home.

Louise Mattinson, one of the directors at Hillcroft Nursing Homes, said: “Dementia affects so many people and with Hillcroft taking care of residents suffering with dementia, it was decided that there couldn’t be a more fitting event to get behind.

“It was a great opportunity to get staff together from each home and unite against dementia.

“We raised an incredible amount of money for Alzheimer’s Research and are pleased to be supporting such an amazing charity. Our wonderful quiz master, Wendy from O&W Entertainment, also donated her fee to the cause. A huge thank you to everyone who took part and to local businesses who kindly donated raffle prizes”.

Mr and Mrs McQuaker celebrated their 60 years of marriage with their family and friends, who all had a fantastic time.

Kausar, Matron at Morecambe, said: “It was so lovely to be able to celebrate with Mr and Mrs McQuaker on their special day. Everyone had a wonderful time and staff worked really hard to make it a great day”.

Terry Braithwaite is a resident at our Carnforth home and he recently celebrated his birthday on New Years Day.

His family took the time to kindly write a letter to Tracey Cooke, Matron at Carnforth, thanking her and the team for all of their hard work.

“We visited Terry on the afternoon of the 1st January – it was his birthday. We would like to thank you and all of the staff on Ash Unit for making it a lovely day. There were birthday banners up and the tables were beautifully laid for New Years Day.

Terry received two parcels and a card from Hillcroft and a lovely iced cake with candles on that we all enjoyed!

Christmas Day was also a lovely day when we visited Terry. Our thanks go to all the staff who were on duty and looked after Terry and all the residents so well. They worked so hard to make sure they all enjoyed Christmas Day. We really appreciate the effort you all make for your residents to have such memorable days.

Our thanks to you all, you are all very special people and we appreciate everything you do for Terry.

With a shortage of Nurses in the care sector it has now been recognised that developing the role of a Care Assistant may be the way forward.

The Directors at Hillcroft Nursing Homes are pleased to announce that they have selected three members of staff to be enrolled on a Level 5 two-year apprenticeship course that is being run by the University of Cumbria.